Teen Magician Uses Illusions for a Good
Cause - Patch.com
A lot of children have an uncle that
teaches them to do a card trick or two,
but in the case of Wyckoff resident and
Ramapo student Anthony Ferrer, that
uncle was a professional magician who
sparked a life-long passion in the
4-year-old Anthony for entertaining
people with his illusions....
Publ.Date : Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:28:14
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Local Christian magicians share their
talent and the gospel - News Sentinel
What transpired in between, however, was
not your usual recitation of facts and
figures and strict adherence to agenda
items. On this particular evening, Carl
McLemore demonstrated a turkey caller
while Ken Wilcoxson performed a classic
rope trick, and Dave Pyard shared a less
painful way of tying off balloons. It
was the monthly meeting of SonShine
Entertainment, the local chapter of the
International Fellowship of Christian
Magicians...
Publ.Date : Tue, 23 Aug 2011 04:08:34
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NYMF Presents JUST LIKE MAGIC 10/7-13 -
Broadway World
Directed by Elizabeth Lucas, JUST LIKE
MAGIC features a cast that includes:
Christopher T. Magician, Ryan Lipnicky
(the Make-A-Wish Foundation pianist),
Jojo the Dodo, Sammy the Safety Donut
and The Anti-Chris. Having performed
magic shows at birthday parties
throughout the New York City living room
circuit, JUST LIKE MAGIC is the chance
to see this talented performer live! But
this is no ordinary magic show...
Publ.Date : Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:50:55
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World Premiere of Just Like Magic ,
Christopher T. Magician's Musical
Extravaganza, Will Play NYMF - Playbill
In Just Like Magic, according to NYMF
notes, "Christopher T. Magician and his
entourage have been hired to perform at
a child's birthday party, but the show
turns decidedly dark as Christopher
suffers a complete mental breakdown in
front of his young audience. What begins
as a fun magic show featuring
toe-tapping songs, comedy, and puppetry
ends with dead puppets and children
scarred for life in this decidedly
not-for-kids musical."..
Publ.Date : 2011-08-24T18:59:50Z

Young Magicians Learn New Tricks
[photos] - Twin Falls Times-News
MagicFest began in 2009 when Clow and
others wanted to bring a little magic to
the Magic Valley. It seems to be
attracting interest, he said. One sign:
About eight people are members of the
Magic Valley Magicians, a group that
aims to promote magic in the valley
through community events such as the
upcoming show...
Publ.Date : Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:35:14
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Magician promises to reveal secrets of
Kerala temple vault - NDTV
Noted magician Samraj has offered to
reveal the invaluable contents of the
unopened vault of the famed Sree
Padmanabhaswamy temple, if the Supreme
Court allowed him to do so. The Kerala-based
illusionist said in a statement, that he
was confident of disclosing the contents
of the "B" vault in the temple without
opening it....
Publ.Date : 2011-08-26T01:46:40Z

Festival of Magic kicks off Sunday -
Cape Cod Times
The first Cape Cod Festival of Magic
will be held Sunday through Friday at
Laurence C. MacArthur Elementary School
in South Yarmouth. It will feature
entertainers and magicians such as
Markus and Angelique Steelgrave, who
frequently perform on the Cape; magician
Tom Burgoon, who has performed for a
U.S. president; and former Cape Cod
performer Mark Weidhaas, who has served
as the national president of the Society
of American Magicians....
Publ.Date : 2011-08-25T13:07:53Z

Could you tell worse joke than Paul
Daniels? - GazetteLive
But the 73-year-old performer had it
spelled out to him that he must do
better by a panel of 10 comedy critics.
Having been given the wooden spoon, Paul
- who now lives in Oxfordshire - told
the Gazette his joke was “deliberately
bad” and that he wasn’t upset. “It
wasn’t bad news - it was brilliant
news,” he said.
Publ.Date : 2011-08-26T11:26:29Z

Neil Patrick Harris, magician
Asked to talk some more about his
passion for the art of illusion, the
star of the hit movie, “The Smurfs,” and
the TV series, “How I Met Your Mother,”
said, “My hobby is magic. I loved going
to the magic store when I was a kid.
Magic is the best hobby in the world,
because you can buy little tricks, learn
them, then present them. You can study
the history of magic, learn close-up
card or illusion, mentalism, and so on.”
Publ.Date : Fri, 26 Aug 2011 05:08:11
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Magicians gather in Helena - Beartooth
NBC
Some of the world's best card magicians
and cheating experts are in Helena this
week to try to figure out who author
S.W. Erdnase really is. Many believe the
man who wrote one of the most
influential magic books ever – “The
Expert of the Card Table” – might
actually have been a prominent Helenan.
Publ.Date : Fri, 26 Aug 2011 22:26:39
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Magician Gets His Groove Back -
Patch.com
Jay Alexander’s New Swing Circus is a
revival of a show that combined the
Novato resident’s magic and comedic
talents with the swing music of Lee
Press-on and the Nails, a band that had
its hey day during the swing revival of
the 90s....
Publ.Date : Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:42:01
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Magic Medicine - TribLocal
John Kurth is from the not-for-profit
group Open Heart Magic. Based in
Chicago, Open Heart Magic provides
bedside magic to pediatric patients at
six Chicago area hospitals. Run by
volunteers, the organization requires
everyone to pass a background check and
enroll in a 12-week training program
that includes more than a curriculum of
magic tricks. Volunteers learn
empowerment techniques that incorporate
magic as therapy.
Publ.Date : Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:23:15
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Montana man author of magic's biggest
mystery? - KXLH Helena News‎
Montana author Marty Demarest has pieced
together clues which point to a Montana
man as the culprit. W.E. Sanders was the
son of one of Montana's most prestigious
founding fathers, Senator Wilbur Fisk
Sanders; and as Demarest discovers, also
the author of magic's most famous
work....
Publ.Date : Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:00:00
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Amazing Randi, On Ice
In this June 7 1960 photo, magician
James “The Amazing” Randi, a talented
escape artist, sits in a structure made
of blocks of ice. Randi spent 47 minutes
enclosed in the ice during the taping
the of children’s television show “Wonderama,”
in New York.
Publ.Date : Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:31:07
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Find in Old West town may be last in
world - Chicago Sun-Times
One of those collectors, magician David
Copperfield, said he thinks she is even
rarer than that. “I think it’s only one
of one,” Copperfield said in a recent
phone interview with the Associated
Press. Copperfield wanted the Gypsy to
be the crown jewel in his collection of
turn-of the century penny arcade games.
It would occupy a place of pride among
the magician’s mechanized Yacht Race,
Temple of Mystery and various machines
that tested a person’s strength.
Publ.Date : Tue, 30 Aug 2011 07:11:42
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ABOUT TOWN: Stoughton's David Rysin
Reflects on Magical Internship -
Patch.com
Stoughton High 2011 graduate David “The
Magnificent” Rysin returned from a
four-day internship at the Orleans Hotel
in Las Vegas earlier this month. Rysin,
along with seven other talented young
magicians from all around the world were
selected to be “interns” at the premier
Las Vegas magic convention, "Magic
Live."...
Publ.Date : Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:46:04
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Magician, psychology professor reveals
tricks and truths behind paranormality -
Daily Texan Online
Richard Wiseman was, at one time, a
teenage magician and one of the youngest
members to be inducted into The Magic
Circle, a London-based magician group,
but has now grown up to become a
psychology professor in the United
Kingdom at the University of
Hertfordshire. He’s made a career out of
investigating paranormal claims and the
psychology behind them and has compiled
some of what he’s found into his latest
book, “Paranormality,” where he explains
why the evidence for these claims is
sorely lacking. He also describes how to
test for the paranormal and, as a man
trained in both the art of magic and the
science of psychology, is in a perfect
position to explain both how the tricks
are pulled off and why they work...
Publ.Date : 2011-08-30T07:39:50Z

Magician stops here before cruising
Jesse Gernigin has found a way to travel
the world and get paid for it. It's part
of his new five-year plan. The
Edwardsville magician and stage
hypnotist has spent the last three years
entertaining people at "high-end"
corporate events. That has meant
constant travel for 225 dates a year
plus some special events, such as
private parties and receptions. Now he
is looking at cruise-ship contracts,
perhaps for six months at a time. He's
been told that in 10 years of six-month
deals, he would visit each of the line's
ports of call. But first, his attention
is focused on his hometown.
Publ.Date : Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:52:32
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